Extension-screen for windows or doors.



Patented Nov. A. T. WAY. EXTENSIGN SCREEN FOB WINDOWS 0R DOUBS.

. (Application led Apr. 11, 1901.

'/N VE N 70H (No Model.)

ll l l NITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

`ABFL T. WAY, OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT.

EXTENSION-SCREEN FOR WINDOWS OR DOORS.

Y SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 687,466, dated November 26, 1901.

Application ned April 11, 190il T allA whom, it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, ABEL T. WAY, a citizen of the United States, and a. resident of Burlington, in the county of Chittenden and State .of Vermont, have invented Vcertain new and ence to the accompanyingdrawngs, forming part of this speciicatiomand will then be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the screen partly extended. Fig. 2 is an inner edge elevation of part of one ofthe sections of the screen. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3, Fig. l.. Fig.4 is a. detail of one of the clips, part of one of the top rails, and part of the angle-iron strip. Fig. 5 is a detached: View of the angle-iron strip which forms the inner verticalrail of each section. Fig. 6 is' a detached View of 011e end of the coveringstrip B. Fig. 7 is a section on line 7 7, Fig. 5. Fig. 8 representssectional detail views of the horizontal extensions.

, Each section of the screen is the counterpart of the other in construction, so that a description ofonewill answerffor both. l

Each section-frame is composed of an outer vertical or upright -rail A, top andbottom horizontal rails B B, and a sheet-metal angle- 1 iron strip C, which constitutes theinner vertical or upright lrail. The wire gauze or nettingD is secured to these parts. It is secured to the end upright A by a covering-strip A' in the usual way. It is secured to the top and bottom rails B by having itsedge located in a longitudinal recess b, formed in each rail, and there secured by a narrow covering-strip B' of a size to fill said recess and to be flush with the body of the.` rail B, and it is secured to the strip C in the manner indicated in Fig. 7. The strip C is a strip of sheet metal of proper width which is first folded longitudinally partlyl over uponV itself and upon the Serial No. 55,340. (No model.)

edge of the wire-netting which is embraced firmly, while the folded limb c, which stands at right anglesto the face of the screen'and which in each screen-section projects toward the face of the netting of the other section,

eectually prevent-s iiies and other ins'ec s from ,passing between the two. halves of'4 the screen. In the inner face of each strip B is a slot b', extending erosswise the strip, forming" at the loweredge an opening 113 and registeringat its upper end with an opening b2, formed in said strip B'. The ends of the angle-iron `strip Care-flattened, aslshown at c2, and the extreme ends are turned up as hooks, as shown at c3. nailed t0 the top and bottom rails, (which is after the angle-iron strip C is in placa) the Whenthe s trips B' are applied and1 slots b flt the flattened portions c2 of the strip O, while the hook ends c3 enter the openings b2, thus holding all of the parts most firmly together. i

The inner endv piece C of each half of the sel screen is located some distance from the inner end of the rails B, leaving at this end of the screen-section vportions of said rails B in the .To these nature of horizontal extensions B2. extensions B2 are secured the clipsrE, which hold the two halves of the screen together,

.thus furnishing a longer and smoother running bearing4 for the partsin their sliding motion than could otherwise be obtained. t The' clips E (re resentediin Figs. 2 and tas before being bent consist each of a sheet-metal rectangular piece of proper size, the shank ot' Vwhich is inserted and held in a lslot e cut in the rail, and the protruding portion of which is then bent over so as toembrace the adjoining rail of the other half of the screen, al1 as plainly shown in the drawings. The slot eis cut in the extension B? in the position shown in the drawings, the slot being flush with the recess band extending outwardly therefrom through the-body of the rail to the outer edge of the rail and being parallel to 'the longitu- When'the shank dinal sidefaces of the rail. of the clip is inserted in this slot itis;there roo understood without further explanation.

Having now described my improvements -and the manner in which the same are to be carried into e'lect, what I claim herein as new and lof my own inventions as follows:

1. In a two-part screen, the combination with the top, bottomand outer end rails and wire-netting on each section, of an inner end rail composed of a sheet-metal strip, bent in angle-iron form, having a limb c parallel with the face of the netting, and a foldedvlimb c which embraces between its folds the edge of the nett-ing and projects at right angles thereto toward the-face of the netting of the opposite screen-section, as and for the 'purposes hereinbefore set forth.

2. The angle-iron piecehayingafolded limb c, embracing the edge of the netti-ng, anda limb c', at right angles to said limb cand parallel with the face of the netting, said angleiron piece having flattened endportions c2, terminating in hook ends c3, in combination with the top and bottom rails B, recessed at b, and the covering-strip B', secured in recess b, and provided with slot b' having upper and lower openings b2 and b3 in which are tted the4 said hook ends c3 and flattenedend portions cl respectively, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore -set forth.

3. The top and bottom rails B of each screensection formed with longitudinal recesses b on their interior opposite faces to receive the netting covering-strips B', and having in their ends B2 which extend inwardly beyond the inner vertical section-rails, slots e .each of which starts from the intersection of the beck and side of its recess and extends thence out wardly .through the rail in the plane -of the back of the recess, in combination with the clips E which einbrace the edges of the rails B ot' the opposite'screensection and are provided with shahks which are inserted and secured in said slots as hereinbefore shown and described.4

In teSLi'mOnyWhereOf I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of April, 41901.

v ABEL T. WAY.

Witnesses;y

ELIHU B. TAFT, MARCELLUS A. BINGHAM. 

